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Arash Mafi, interim director of The University of New Mexico Center for High Technology Materials, has been named a 2018 Optical Society Fellow.
“UNM has a well-established and strong research and education tradition in optics and photonics, especially...

With warm, dry summers comes a deadly caveat for the western United States: wildfires. Scientists say the hot, dry climates found west of the Mississippi, along with decades of fire suppression efforts, are creating a devastating and destructive...

University of New Mexico graduate student Jacek Ksawery Osinski was one of 52 students across the nation selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science for its 2017 Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program.
The...

When Robert Ward (B.S. Physics, ’00) first came to The University of New Mexico in the late-1990s, he had no idea he’d be part of one of the most important scientific discoveries of the past century. 20 years later, that’s exactly what happened and now,...

Hidden among the shelves and cabinets of natural history collections lie thousands of preserved plant specimens that represent the diverse flora of our planet. Scientists and researchers physically access these collections around the world in order to...

University of New Mexico researchers have been awarded a five-year $7 million federal grant that establishes a new center to develop more effective behavioral health interventions for the state’s under-resourced, racially, ethnically and geographically...

The University of New Mexico Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology is hosting this year’s Milton Kahn Annual Lectureship on Friday, Sept. 29 at 4 p.m. in SMLC 102.
Professor Mark Johnson
The lecture will feature Mark Johnson, the Arthur T. Kemp...

Throughout her academic career, Lina Cui has always been interested in the chemistry of disease in the human body. Now, as a University of New Mexico Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cui is using her knowledge and...

The New Mexico Academy of Science (NMAS) and its partners, the New Mexico Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (NM EPSCoR), the New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation (NM AMP) and the University of New Mexico Center for Water &...

As the need for alternative forms of energy production continues to increase around the world, researchers at The University of New Mexico are working to improve hydrogen fuel cells by better understanding them at the atomic and molecular...

Faculty Experts

Nancy López is an associate professor of sociology at the University of New Mexico López directs and co-founded the Institute for the Study of “Race” and Social Justice, RWJF Center for Health Policy, which is in the process of creating a ...